How to Lie with Statistics, 101. Finding a job for 100,000 new graduates is harder than finding 11 jobs for all the students who were talked into a major in art history. I call BS on the statistics for this claim.
Statistics being what they are, there’s a concern that’s not addressed here: the ascendency of AI. Firms like Microsoft are committed to having more than 50% of their code developed by AI. At some point it’ll be that AI is developing the code, and the senior level programmers who remain will do QA and some minor fixes. Computer programming will become a niche skill in 20 years.